NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting electron package, versions <27.3.8>=28.0.0 <28.2.9>=29.0.0 <29.1.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6476870
  • published28 Mar 2024
  • disclosed20 Mar 2024
  • creditGanjiang Zhou

Introduced: 20 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-2625  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 27.3.8, 28.2.9, 29.1.6 or higher.

Overview

electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference in V8, due to an object lifecycle issue involving scope inheritance.

CVSS Scores

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